Dell RecoverPoint vs Dell SRDF (Symmetrix Remote Data Facility ) [EOL] comparison

"It has improved RTO and RPO."

"Customer Service: Very good, EMC did support us to implement it well and gave useful instructions and lessons to help to maintain it well."

"The solution provides continuous data protection."

"It can replicate data from a distant location and it can scan it as well, with continuous data replication and almost no data loss."

"The most valuable feature we have found in RecoverPoint is its ability to provide the lowest RPO."

"The most valuable features include the ease of defining contingency groups and the drag-and-drop functionality, which speeds up our application processes."

"It excels in duplicating data between two distinct types of storage systems."

"It is amazing because it is very easy to test with many alternative bookmarks."

"The feature of taking snapshots from the replicated volumes has allowed us to use them for DR testing to validate the application consistent point of recovery."

"In all the companies in which I have used the product the ease of Disaster Recovery was implemented in such a manner that the risk of a site disaster was mitigated in an efficient way, and it made the migrations of complete data centers to other new data centers at other locations a piece of cake."

"Customer Service: Top notch. Technical Support: Excellent."

"The SRDF solution has improved our disaster recovery RPO to near zero or less than 15 minutes with RTO getting drastically reduced."

"We've found the support to be very good overall."

"Customer Service: Very good. Technical Support: Very good."

"We've found the support to be very good overall."

"Customer service for this product was top notch."

"The solution normally supports only specific types and amounts of storage. If it could be increased to support much larger amounts or a wider range, it could fetch a bigger market."

"RecoverPoint's WAN optimization could be improved."

"Dell RecoverPoint can be improved by virtualizing it, which would use less storage and enhance performance."

"The initial setup is complex."

"RecoverPoint journals consume a lot of storage to obtain a large RPO."

"Other hypervisors should be integrated with this system. Other hypervisors should be able to get the benefits of this solution."

"The new Gen5 appliances have adopted the Unisphere management interface and it is written for Adobe Flash, which in my experience, is very slow and makes administration cumbersome at times."

"The product should provide integration with new products."

"Our ROI was minimal, because we use it for a cold, disaster recovery method."

"If you are new to the product, the initial setup might be a bit difficult."

"The main pain point that we experienced is during device creation. For every newly provisioned volume, creating replication relationships between production and DR site, creating snapshots for third copy at DR site, and configuring them in appropriate replication groups and device groups means that there are lot of steps involved and a lot of room for error. There has to be a lot of checks and balances which need to be incorporated to make sure that the solution is set up correctly."

"The main pain point that we experienced is during device creation."

"In general, it’s very stable although some time SRDF don’t behave as expected specially if the link is not stable or saturated."

"If you are new to the product, the initial setup might be a bit difficult."

"As of late I have seen the replication drop but this was not due to the SRDF, it was due to the high rate of IO changes on the OS side."

"SRDF compared with EMC Recover Point has less capabilities, for ex. CDP (local or remote) is missing, only EMC assets compatibility, as a TCO is more expensive than implementing IBM SVC or EMC VPLEX virtualization and replication (more supported assets)."

"Support is an additional subscription."

"The price is moderate."

"It is considered quite costly."

"While I recommend Dell EMC, it depends on your specific use case. Licensing is perpetual, meaning you buy it once."

"The product is fairly priced."

"RecoverPoint came free as an add-on to the PowerProtect Data Manager backup software from Dell EMC."